Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-27

The San Francisco Call says Grover
Cleveland and James G. Blaine occupy
nearly identical positions in their re-
spective parties. Either one. it is be-
lieved, can obtain the nomination for
the Presidency if he wants it. There Is
much reason to doubt il either wants il.
That both would accept the nomination
if a reasonable apprehension OF defeat
could be banished is 3 matter upon
which discussion would be s~uperauous.
Mr.. Cleveland would like a second term
and Mr.. Blaine a first q e But each
occupies a position in his party which
renders defeat something more than .
personal disaster. If Mr.. Cleveland
should be nominated and defeated the
Democratic leaders would think, if they
did not say, that almost any other
Democrat would have been elected. Mr..
Blaine is in the same position. He has
failed once OF an election by q margin
30 narrow that il counts in his favor as
we'll a. against him. What other can
didate would have come within 100
votes Of carrying New York, whose
electoral vote would have elected him.
But the fact remains that he led his
party to the FIRST defeat it had expert
enced in twenty-four years. Feeling
the full force of this fact, Mr.. Blaine
does not want to be the candidate In
1883 unless he 10 reasonably sure Of an
election. The policy Of mastery mac
tivisy is open to both these aspirants to
adopt. Both should abstain from work.
ing for the nomination. If the conven-
tions OF their respective parties are
clearly of the opinion that they are
standard bearers under whom success is
the most probable, they can accept with.
out compunction Of conscience. But
if either should obtain . majority in the
convention through the skillful use OF
the machine or the distribution of pat
ronags, and defeat should follow in No
vember, the position of the defeated
candidate would be intolerable. There
are many influences that point to Mr..
Blaine as the strongest candidate the
Republicans can nominate. More than
any other prominent Republican, he is
in sympathy with labor. He has OPP
posed Chinese immigration and that
financial policy by which the debtor
class was oinched through the demoneti.
zation of silver. His enemies say that
in taking sides with the people on these
two questions he simply showed the act
of demagogue; but this reflection has no
weight with thinking men. Every pub
lie man who takes the popular side in .
controversy is open to the SAM re.
proach. The fact that Mr.. Blaine was
on the labor side when the bulk Of his
party was on the other has endeared
him to the laboring people. He may
fail again, as he did in 1854, to carry
New York, but there is little doubt but
that he would poll a larger popular vote
in the aggregate than any other Repub-
lican candidate. Mr.. Cleveland is re-
garded by many good politicians in both
parties as the most available candidate
the Democrats can nominate. His hold
on the people is his honesty, the cleanli.
ness OF his administration, and his indie.
pendence of what is known as the ma.
chine. He has shown the country that
there is necessarily no danger to business
in . Democratic rule. His measures are
not in their full sense Democratic. His
silver policy is q reflection of Wall
street, and if he is opposed to Chinese
immigration the fact has not been made
distinctly manifested. Still, he has
given the country an honest, safe and
cre6itable administration of affairs. He
would command . large vote among
business men without distinction of
party. 1t is quite within the bounds of
possibility that the Democratic national
convention will tender him the nomina.
tion, not because he is their frat choice,
but in the belief that he is more likely
than any other aspirant to be elected If
nominated.